Senior Staff Backend Engineer

<div class="content-intro"><p><strong><em>🚀 We’re on a mission to make money work for everyone.</em></strong></p> <p>We’re waving goodbye to the complicated and confusing ways of traditional banking.</p> <p>After starting as a prepaid card, our product offering has grown a lot in the last 10 years in the UK. As well as&nbsp;<a href="https://monzo.com/current-account/personal&quot;&gt;personal&lt;/a> and <a href="https://monzo.com/business-banking&quot;&gt;business&lt;/a> bank accounts, we offer <a href="https://monzo.com/current-account/joint-account&quot;&gt;joint accounts</a>, <a href="https://monzo.com/current-account/16-17&quot;&gt;accounts for 16-17 year olds</a>, a <a href="https://monzo.com/current-account/under-16s&quot;&gt;free kids account</a> and <a href="https://monzo.com/flex&quot;&gt;credit cards</a> in the UK, with more exciting things to come beyond. Our UK customers can also <a href="https://monzo.com/savings&quot;&gt;save&lt;/a>, <a href="https://monzo.com/investments&quot;&gt;invest </a>and&nbsp;<a href="https://monzo.com/pensions&quot;&gt;combine their pensions</a> with us.&nbsp;</p> <p>With our hot coral cards and get-paid-early feature, combined with financial education on social media and our award winning customer service, we have a long history of creating magical moments for our customers!</p> <p>We’re not about selling products - we want to solve problems and change lives through Monzo ❤️</p> <hr> <p>&nbsp;</p></div><p><strong>📍London / UK Remote | 💰 £135,000 - £184,000 + Share Options | <a href="https://monzo.com/careers/&quot;&gt;Benefits&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;|&amp;nbsp;&lt;a href="https://monzo.com/blog/technology&quot;&gt;Technology&lt;/a&gt;&amp;nbsp;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p> <p><strong>Senior Staff Engineer: L70 on our <a href="https://monzo.com/documents/engineering-progression-framework-v4-1.pdf&quot;&gt;Engineering Progression Framework </a></strong></p> <p><strong>About our Engineering Teams:</strong></p> <p>We have around 600 engineers out of roughly 5,000 people in total - and we have big ambitions. There are many interesting challenges ahead, and we're happy for people to move between teams or to specialise, whatever you prefer. As an engineer here you'd be able to work directly with anyone across the company, and we run regular knowledge-sharing sessions so you’ll learn heaps about everything from how banks work to effective communication.</p> <p>We contribute to<a href="https://github.com/monzo"> <strong>open source software</strong></a> as much as possible. Our<a href="https://monzo.com/blog/technology"> <strong>blog</strong></a><strong> </strong>is a good place to learn even more about what we do.</p> <p><strong>Senior Staff Engineer Responsibilities:</strong></p> <p>A Senior Staff Engineer at Monzo is a hands on engineering leadership (IC) position. As a Senior Staff Engineer you’ll:</p> <ul> <li>Partner with Engineering Directors to <strong data-start="815" data-end="876">shape the technical and product direction of a collective</strong>, providing leadership across multiple squads (30–70+ engineers) and ensuring alignment with company-wide priorities.</li> <li>Be <strong>hands on</strong> in both coding and architecture, leading from the front.</li> <li>Partner closely with Product and Design leadership to <strong data-start="1698" data-end="1832">define strategy, shape roadmaps, and make high-quality trade-offs that maximise business and customer impact across the collective</strong>.</li> <li><strong data-start="2010" data-end="2079">Mobilise teams across your collective around high-impact problems</strong>, creating clarity, alignment and momentum, injecting urgency when needed, or slowing things down to ensure safety and long-term sustainability.</li> <li>Lead and influence architectural direction for the most complex systems, <strong data-start="2503" data-end="2626">ensuring cohesive, scalable designs across multiple teams and aligning local decisions with the broader system strategy</strong>.</li> <li>Set and uphold a high bar for technical excellence across the collective, <strong data-start="2882" data-end="3020">driving improvements in quality, reliability and scalability, and fostering a culture where engineers hold each other to tha